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Chessboard

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The square board used in the game of chess, subdivided into eight rows of eight squares each, the squares in each row and column being of alternating colours.

    "If a piece moves to a square occupied by an opponent’s piece the latter is captured and removed from the chessboard as part of the same move."

  2. 2
    a checkerboard used to play chess wordnet
  3. 3
    A mathematical construction based on this pattern of squares

Etymology

From chess + board.

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